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XBox 360 MTV Ad and Possible Images
hollismb writes "A teaser commercial for the upcoming unveiling of the XBOX 360 on MTV had been released on the internet, and you can watch it here. In addition, an image was released on OurColony yesterday, that many feel my be a partial image of what the new console will look like. If true, this seems to go against the white console report from a couple weeks ago." There are even more possible photos available via a Voodoo Extreme post.
I'd rather see the Madden commercial than the XBox360 commercial. If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive. The console could look like a turd for all I care (hell it may keep it from getting stolen).
That image doesn't look like a hard drive carrier, it looks like a pull-out handle.
My other Sig is
As everyone knows, Apple came out with the Apple Pippin in the mid-nineties, which, like the XBOX360, was a games console running a stripped down desktop OS.
Worse still, they're also copying IBM, who everyone knows, is one of Linux's biggest contributors. They're including IBM's processor technologies in their hardware, just like IBM did in the mid-sixties when they came out with their own, giant, garage-sized, games console. Think it's co-incidence?
Well, get this: IBM's huge, EBCDIC-spouting, multiuser games console was called the System/360. Microsoft couldn't even hide how unoriginal they're being by at least calling their pathetic attempt something different.
Engadget has pics of the entire console here
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
Everyone in the ad is outside.
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I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
released.
I can't believe how well this is working for Microsoft. They (or whomever they chose as their PR company for Xbox2) are genius. Nintendo's strategy has always been to say absolutely nothing about anything, and then just show it. Sony has been a little more forthcoming, but it's in a more matter-of-fact PR release.
But Microsoft has been using ourcolony to v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y release information, literrally droplets of information. Instead of getting one big bang where they unveil the console on May whatever, they're getting 20 big bangs, one almost every day up to that date, where all the game news sites are reporting (no exaggeration), "We think we might have seen the Xbox360 power button!"
Need proof? Go look at the number of headlines in games.slashdot that discuss the Xbox. And isn't it interesting how many of these end in a question mark? Really and truly, we don't know a damn confirmed thing about the new xbox, and yet Microsoft is getting at least one Xbox "major" news item circulated on the gaming sites every day.
I'm not complaining. I'm as excited about the Xbox2 as anyone else. But I think what's more newsworthy is that Nintendo is still stuck in the Nintendo Power days of releasing information, Sony somewhere in the middle, and Microsoft is really using the 86400second internet news cycle to their advantage.
Milk away Microsoft, milk away.
I don't know how well this is really working. I know that I wouldn't know anything about OurColony or the name being XBox360 (if it is) unless I read this site...
for example, someone said ilovebees was very successful, and I had no clue what that was until the other day.
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
I find it absolutely amazing how Microsoft has the gaming world captivated with titbits about the Xbox 2 - whereas nobody cares about the Playstation 3 or Nintendo Revolution.
I wonder how much this has to do with Sony's PSP - they're still advertising it and probably don't want the PS3 to tread on it's coattails. It would be ironic if the success of the PSP is what kills the PS3 - just like the Gameboy became Nintendo's focus and contributed to the downfall of the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube (because Nintendo's best console was the Gameboy, anything else they made was 2nd best).
A company can only have one flagship product in a market space - and the PSP is definitely it for Sony.
I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released. Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox? Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.
SIGFAULT
My understanding is that all controllers for the system will be wireless, possibly bluetooth but that's only a guess. I know there is more information out there about this. There are no controller ports on the front, if you look, just what looks like an IR reciever.
those pics ARE actually the next xbox, theyre leacked pictures fron press kits from mtv and a munch of other publications they were supposed to keep under wraps... but didnt. and fyi, the controllers are wireless, and they are UGLY!
"Oooh, pictures of the Xbox! Details on the PS3!"
Uh, yeah, those would be considered news.
"Derp de derp."
And Sony and Nintendo are both launching sometime next year, not this fall, so they can position their hype to counter the Xbox 360 retail launch. "Wait for us! We'll be able to render The Incredibles in real time."
Some news. :)
I could (generally) care less what a console looks like, as long as it's fun to play.
Well, "Details on the PS3" would be newsish at least. Though there is still a lot of hype about things.
"Uh, yes, I'd like to return this unit."
"Why?"
"Because somebody sat on it!"
"Derp de derp."
The Dreamcast was not a Microsoft system. Nor did it die to being a bad system. No Microsoft blame to be had here. You can't even tell which games used CE.
"Derp de derp."
does anyone think that huge power button looks even remotely real? look at the edges of it where it would sit in the unit, there does not appear to be any bevel or seam of any sort.... looks to me like it was simply enhanced with Adobe Photoshop(R) photo editing software
I can see the marks where the Phantom stickers were taken off...what's going on here?!?
Since we don't have information on the physical size of the console yet, let's just go with original Xbox's track record of girth and assume that's where the DVD goes.
Xbox360games wrote a good analysis of what the different components could mean. It looks like the left side of the box is meant to stand upright, which means it's engineered to allow the heat to come out the right side. (Ever used one of those rotating lcd monitors?)
Games that used Windows CE have a Windows CE logo on the back of the box, and they display a Windows CE logo on the "Produced by or under licence..." screen. At least, I've seen games with one or both of those things.
But very few games actually used Windows CE, it was mostly a couple of Windows ports, most stuff used Sega's own libraries instead.
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
I downloaded this movie several days ago (and I don't remember from where). It was identical to this one, except that instead of "revelation", the narrator said "revolution".
It struck me as a bit of a jab at Nintendo. I think its interesting that Microsoft would have changed it.
I've got to say I'm pretty excited about the design unveiling for all the new consoles. To tell you the truth though, I'm a little more excited about the PS3 and Revolution. The way I see it, Sony and Nintendo already have my purchase in the bag. As with the current generation, Microsoft will have a bit of convincing to do.
Gamers aren't their target market?
By the looks of the ad, it would seem they're targeting ravers and people who play basketball on rooftops. They didn't seem to have time to play video games though.
Who are they going after then?
I'm not sure if you can judge how well it's working until the thing actually comes out. Sales will measure the success.
To be honest, I don't give a rat's ass about the Xbox right now. Once the game advertisements start airing, I think a lot of people will start paying attention.
if you didn't know about it, then you obviously aren't their target market
Or they missed their target...
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
These particular pictures indicate something about the machine's capabilities and functionality, though. There's a 40GB hard drive crammed into the side, there are memory card slots (and another picture I saw last night seems to be of a 64MB card), there are no controller ports with the possible exception of a single legacy XBox 1 port...
Honor Among Slackers. A veri
At least it looks better than the PS3 concept images. Take a look for yourself. http://img224.echo.cx/my.php?image=omgps38js.jpg
You are correct that it was not a Microsoft system, but from my understanding there was still Microsoft blame to be had. If I'm not mistaken, the ability to load "unauthorized" CDs w/o modifying the system was due to a security issue made available by Windows CE (basically to boot the disc by using a custom binary file... thanks to CE). Man I miss playing my Dreamcast...
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Even if that's the case, that may be an F up on MS's part, but that's not what killed the DC. What killed the DC was that Sega didn't have the money to produce enough units to sell. It would have cost them nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to get out a million units. They needed like another 6 million to be worthwhile. Ouch.
That's why Sega dumped the hardware business.
"Derp de derp."
All the teenage boys I know will relish the opportunity to make outrageous claims about their "memory units."
"Hey Sean, my memory unit is twice as big as yours!"
The world can be wrong today for once.
What IS it with the score on this message? It's been up to +2 Insightful and down to -1 Troll twice now.
I'm not complaining, either way. Just weird, 's all.